The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-02
Baseball Notes.

| Hutchinson, tho Yale pitcher. is winning
games right along for the Des Moines club
| Ward has failed to make hit IN but five out
| of ffty-one games this season He likes the new
| rules.
Lowell has sent out twenty Eve professional
| players, all of whom are the diamond this
| season.
Wise is the second best batsman in the League.
| counting actual hits His average is 1865. with
total of .622
| est ghosts to facing men are Whitney Ferguson
| Calvin and Clarkson, in the order named. George
| has given the most
Ladies can now purchase baseball tickets at
the When store. between and II A. NJ. of each
day when games played here, Mr.. Brush
having assigned a counter in the furnishing de-
partment of his store for that purpose
Boston Herald: An umplre's decision is final
and a club has option, but must obey, and if
protest is due to make it and go This once
happened to the Bostons. The umpire refused
to allow one of their players (Mannng) to leave
the field or have substitute. The Bostons went
on with eight men,
1t has been reported that Thompson, Brouth-
ers, Richardson and Dunlap had been sold to the
Philadelphia club, and a result the Detroit
players were inclined to quit playing their best.
This story having reached the of the De-
trolt management Is emphatcally denied by
them. Instead of selling, Detroit would buy
players
@To-day, at Eimira, n. Y, Mark Twain will
appear in the role of base bail umpire in COM
pany with Thomas K. Beecher. The game is to
be between the Aerts and the Unions, two local
clubs that played in 1866 and 1867. Nearly all
the members of the old clubs living and the
teams will be re-organized they were then
The players are representative rnsu of the city.
While there is no doubt that everybody who
has witnessed the recent games here believes
that Mr.. Pearce is a very bad umpire, there is
excuse for allowing lot of hoodlums to an
noy respectable patrons of the game by bowling
insulting remarks at him. 1t is simply nui-
sance that. for decencys sake, and out of respect
for the better class of spectators, ought to be
suppressed.
Much solicitude is felt in st. Louis by the
friends of the home club. who fear that the
Browns will lose the championship in the event
Bushongs injury is so serious to lay him up
any great length of time. Boyle, the only other
catcher the Browns have, is comparatively a
novice behind the bat for such pitchers the
Browns possess, and is a weak player generally
A rumor has been in circulation in St. Louis for
several days to the effect that Won der Abe has
about closed successful negotiations for first
class catcher from the League to assist Bushopg.
Boston Advertiser DR.. Leaf, of Philadelphia,
has read a paper before the county medical So
writer is himself player and testifies that
best ways to,insure ones living long life" This
advocate suggests, also, that the reason why
there are SO few strokes among players or
spectators is that the natural excitement of the
game braces up the nervous system SO that the
heat has not the usual depressing effect" This
treatise should be circulated as a tract by the
Teagu6 this season.